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John SteinbeckBiblio.com

1945CanneryRow1stCannery Row by John Steinbeck author of The Grapes of Wrath Of Mice and Men and East of Eden Hardcover First Edition - First Printing - Second State Binding - First State Dust Jacket Viking 1945. $2.00 cover price inside front dust jacket flap. First Printing since there is NO subsequent printing information on the copyright page. Second state canary yellow boards with blue lines and lettering on the front and spine. NOT to be confused with the wartime edition in blue boards. see edition information belowFine- in Near Fine unrestored Dust Jacket. A really nice exceptional copy in dust jacket. The book itself is just about fine with very clean pages. Dust jacket is quite clean and bright at the front and does NOT have any major tears. Typical edge-wear top and bottom spine and rubbing and nicks to the same and at the corners and some typical soiling to the back of the dust jacket. Overall a very clean and presentable first edition copy of one of the half-dozen major works of Steinbeck.Note on edition/state: The first edition/first printing of this book appeared in two states both released simultaneously. The first state has been determined to be buff-colored somewhat tan-like boards while the second state is canary yellow. Apparently during production the printers ran out of the buff/tan materials for the boards and to meet the publishing deadline yellow colored materials were brought in and used for the rest of the print-run. Purists collectors will contest the buff-colored boards are the most preferable. However they really represent at best simply two states of the first printing not two printings as further printings would be indicated subsequently because the book was popular since copies of both states were released simultaneously in 1945. At the time buyers would have had about a 50-50 chance of purchasing either the buff or yellow boards of these copies. Typically first state copies of the buff-tan variety in near fine or better dust jackets are priced at $2000 while the yellow boards as offered here can be had for a fraction of the price. Everything else the pages the dust jacket price etc are the same. As a collector I am more interested in the condition of the dust jacket rather than whether the boards are first or second state. Shortly thereafter a so-called wartime edition was issued in blue boards. The wartime edition while a good reading copy has essentially almost no premium value on the collectors market.NOTE: All modern books with dust jackets come with dust jacket covers.ALSO: The pictures are of the actual item for sale. The pictures are NOT stock photos. Viking hardcover

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Steinbeck, JohnBiblio.com

Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters

19691264681969. New York: The Viking Press 1969. Narrow 4to 148 pp. Yellow card wrappers lettered in black with folding box. Upper wrappers numbered "11" in top left corner. very light wear to spine of wrappers box spotted else very good. § Unrevised proofs. Steinbeck's day-by-day account of the writing of East of Eden in the form of letters to his friend and publisher Pat Covici. The book was published posthumously in an edition of 600 copies. "John Steinbeck in writing East of Eden warmed up for the daily stint ahead in a "letter" to his editor the late Pascal Covici. It was written in pencil usually on the left-hand pages of a large notebook which Covici had supplied. Then when Steinbeck felt ready he proceeded to the text of the novel on the right-hand pages. The writing covered the period from January 29 to November 1 1951. There was a "letter" for every working day. The letter was primarily a method of flexing the author's mental and physical muscles. Steinbeck sometimes used it to adumbrate the problems and purposes of the passage on which he was about to embark-"a kind of arguing ground for the story" as he said once. At other times it consisted of random thoughts trial flights in wordsmanship nuggets of information and comment about the events of the moment both personal and public. But the letters were also full of serious thinking about this novel his longest and most ambitious as well as about novel-writing in general. Never intended for publication they cast a flood of light on the author's mind and on the nature of the creative process. And in the private glimpses of the Nobel-Prize-winning writer-his concern about his sons his hobbies such as wood- carving and carpentry his passion for invention-they are autobiographical material of the first order. In a sense this is Steinbeck's testament. unknown

John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller · États-Unis750,00 $US≈ 634,57 €

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